Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, December 2022

This paper examines the role of structural change in India's performance, and in particular the role of the informal segment in the stagnant growth of the Indian manufacturing sector. Using counterfactual analysis--including a modified...

Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, December 2022

Firms play a major role in facilitating green growth in developing nations by promoting environmental protection investment to control pollution caused during the manufacturing process. The paper explores whether the financial vulnerability of firms...

Small Business Economics: An Entrepreneurship Journal, December 2022

While the extant literature suggests that an individual’s occupational choice depends on the level of economic development, little is known about how the dynamics of education and social identity impact self-employment choice over time in a developing country setting...

The Journal of Development Studies, December 2022

Using a massive malaria eradication program in India during the 1950s as a natural experiment, we examine the effects of disease environment on child health outcomes and fertility. We harmonise a rich dataset on malaria endemicity with fertility histories of women to exploit the cohort level variation in exposure to the program...

Computational Economics, December 2022

In this study, the relationship between electricity and growth of the economy is investigated by applying the newly-developed bootstrap autoregressive-distributed lag test with a Fourier function to examine both the causality and cointegration for China, India, and the United States (US)...

Applied Economics Letters, December 2022

This study analyses the predictive power of six categories of investors who traded Nifty Index future contracts on the National Stock Exchange of India (NSE). Quality data were collected from The Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). Investors’ predictive potential was estimated by analysing the effect of open interest...

Constitutional Political Economy, December 2022

An ‘elite’ party caters to ‘elite’ voters, while a ‘non-elite’ party caters to ‘non-elite’ voters. Now, the ‘elite’ party wants to expand its support base to include ‘non-elite’ voters. It can do so using one of two possible strategies—it can provide them public goods or it can dole out clientelistic benefits to them. We present...

Economic Systems, December 2022

This paper examines the effect of gender diversity on the financial performance of firms in India. Specifically, we examine two specific aspects of gender diversity- how the implementation of gender diversity across various workforce levels affects firm performance and the role of gender norms and culture...

Journal of Asian Economics, December 2022

This paper proposes new composite measures of relative and dynamic state performance to improve governance and delivery of public programs in developing countries with a federal structure. We illustrate the use of the indices to rank the performance of 19 major Indian states on two large development programs...

Economic Modelling, December 2022

Earlier studies have confirmed the asymmetry as a key feature of return volatility and risk spillovers. However, little research has explored the impact of asymmetric dependence volatility on risk spillovers. In this paper, we propose the asymmetric generalized autoregressive score-time-varying mixture model...

World Development, December 2022

We evaluate a large-scale model of agricultural advisory services, known as Krishi Vigyan Kendra (KVK) or Farm Science Centers, introduced by the Government of India to facilitate smallholder adoption of new agricultural technologies. The study first evaluates the impact of frontline...